The sequel manga takes place after Tohru has graduated high school, and it features a girl named Sawa who has just entered high school.
The anime will premiere in Japan on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, and other stations in April, and Funimation will stream the anime on FunimationNow.
The official website for the new television anime of Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket manga announced on Thursday that Maaya Sakamoto (Ouran High School Host Club’s Haruhi Fujioka, Ghost in the Shell Arise’s Motoko Kusanagi, Black Butler’s Ciel Phantomhive) is joining the cast as the character Akito Sohma.
Takaya launched a sequel manga titled Fruits Basket Another on the free “HanaLaLa online” website in September 2015, but it moved to Hakusensha’s Manga Park website and app in August 2017 along with the other HanaLaLa online manga.